1.   But influential politicians were still required to push the new policies.

2.   Though he holds no official post, he is seen as the most influential politician in the state.

3.   Already, influential politicians in France and Germany talk of a new and more determinedly federal core of a wider Union, built around themselves.

4.   And all across Mexico, influential politicians from the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party, known as the PRI, still enjoy special treatment before the law.

5.   As the Russian crisis mounted in August, for example, Soros worked his Rolodex, summoning influential Russian politicians and United States Treasury Department officials to the telephone.

6.   But influential politicians are wrangling over whether the bank-restructuring agency should be freer of political meddling or instead made more accountable.

7.   But one influential politician is paying close attention to the question.

8.   His father was a large landowner and influential conservative politician.

9.   It might seem an unusual role for a man who, like almost every influential Texas politician, said that he supports the death penalty.

10.   The Bush brothers, among a cadre of influential conservative politicians, would disagree.